Date

March 7, 2021 13:00~15:15

Venue

Online

Theme

Linguistics and Language Teaching in the Age of Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning

Part 1 – 13:00-13:10
10 Years of Reflecting on the United Association of Language Studies while Focusing on the Future: Dr. Hisashi Noda (National Institute of Japanese Language and Linguistics)

Part 2
Speaker 1 – 13:15~14:00 Dr. Charles Browne (Meiji Gakuin University)

Speaker 2 – 14:05~14:50 Dr. Hiroyuki Obari (Aoyama Gakuin University)

Part 3
Panel Discussion / Q&A – 14:55~15:15
Panelists (In Order of Appearance):
Dr. Hisashi Noda
Dr. Charles Browne
Dr. Hiroyuki Obari

Participants : 113 (from Japan as well as from Asia and Europe)

Date

November 9, 2019 at 15:15 -18:00

Venue

Kwansei Gakuin University

Theme

How Is Reality of Language Recognized? Comparison Among Languages

• Host: Yukio Hirose (University of Tsukuba)
  Presenters:
• Yo Matsumoto (National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics)
• Masaru Inoue (Reitaku University)
• Junji Okamoto (Gakushuin Univeristy)
• Jyunya Watanabe (Tokyo University)

Participants : 130 (42 outside of the conference participants)

Date

February 23, 2019 at 14:00 ~ 16:00

Venue

University of the Sacred Heart 4th Building. Britt Memorial Hall

Theme

Exploring the Acquisition of Foreign Languages: The World of Languages Told by the Ultimate Language Learner

• Opening address: Mina Kobayashi (Vice President, The Society for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language / Waseda University) 14:00 – 14:10
• Introduction: Kazunari Iwata (University of the Sacred Heart) 14:10 – 14:20
• Speaker: Hideyuki Takano (Nonfiction Writer) 14:20 – 15:20
• Commentary: Hiroyuki Yamauchi (Jissen Women’s University) 15:20 – 15:30
• Q & A from floor 15:30 – 16:00

Participants : 369